Everyone's back

I'm feeling like I have been picked up from the Fonty forests and air-dropped at VT during peak office going hours. So many people! And of course, we've had the place to ourselves for so long, that it is feeling like a personal invasion. Still the morning routine went by smoothly. Dropping him, my walk, playing the violin, yoga and then to school to man (er, wo-man) the welcome desk. The new guys look just as lost as we did - cards, presentations, scavenger hunts, lunches, carte de sejour. The initial welcome makes you feel - Wow!! There's so much to do! And then gradually it petters off and you have to find your own place in this new society, because it is a whole new civilization - people from everywhere (71 countries) forming their own culture, traditions, rights and wrongs, not that there are many wrongs. Everything goes.....